With just a year left in her term and two years until the Democratic primary debates, Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer is stepping up her preparations for a presidential bid. This weekend, she hit the ...

Gretchen Whitmer says there's a reason she's stopping in Florida as she travels the country ramping up Democratic messaging ahead of the midterm elections: She flipped the governor's mansion in ...

Attorney General Dana Nessel has stated that she will sue President Donald Trump if he sends the National Guard to Michigan, while House Democrats blame Republicans for the federal government ...

DNR officials granted an educational permit for Peanut, a white-tailed deer, after public outcry and pressure from lawmakers.

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Parents, experts, and advocates lament the loss of state funding for Great Start Collaboratives, which they say helped little ones and parents thrive.

A bipartisan group of lawmakers is urging Gov. Gretchen Whitmer to halt the state-ordered euthanasia of a visually impaired fawn living at a wildlife center in Michigan. That fawn, Peanut, was ...

Michigan’s new budget totals $84 billion, which includes a significant increase in funding for education, road projects, and school safety and mental health, as well as a 24% wholesale tax ...

The Citizens Research Council of Michigan's analysis highlighted "a huge and atypical shift in appropriations," within the new budget.

What Gilchrist has been doing lately is seizing on his party’s apparent weakness to reposition his standing in the governor’s race.